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Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (Rethinking Art's Histories)
Dominic Johnson
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Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as later generations of artists, Smith is an icon of the New York avant-garde. Nevertheless, he is conspicuously absent from dominant histories of American culture in the 1960s, as well as from narratives of the impact that decade would have on coming years. Smith poses uncomfortable challenges to cultural criticism and historical analysis, which Glorious catastrophe seeks ... Read more
Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as later generations of artists, Smith is an icon of the New York avant-garde. Nevertheless, he is conspicuously absent from dominant histories of American culture in the 1960s, as well as from narratives of the impact that decade would have on coming years. Smith poses uncomfortable challenges to cultural criticism and historical analysis, which Glorious catastrophe seeks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Rethinking Art's Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091476
SKU
V9780719091476
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About Dominic Johnson
Dominic Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary University of London -- .
Reviews for Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (Rethinking Art's Histories)
‘In Glorious Catastrophe, Johnson celebrates the fabulous, freakish spectacle of Jack Smith and his work to its fullest extent in a manner that reflects his subject’s contempt for assimilation. In this, he seems inspired by Kathy Acker’s injunction to writers ‘to scream, to forget, to do anything except reduce radical difference, through representation, to identities, singularity, calculable and controllable’ in ... Read more